Paul Castagno

New Playwriting Strategies

Language and Media in the 21st Century

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Produktbeschreibung

New Playwriting Strategies has become a canonical text in the study and teaching of playwriting, offering a fresh and dynamic insight into the subject. This thoroughly revised and expanded second edition explores and highlights the wide spread of new techniques that form contemporary theatre writing, as well as their influence on other dramatic forms.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780415491471
• ISBN-10: 0415491479
• Artikelnr.: 33380244

Autorenporträt

Paul C. Castagno is Professor of Theater at UNC-Wilmington, where he served as founding chair of the Department of Theater. He formerly served as Director and Head of MA programs at the School of Theater at Ohio University, and headed the MFA Playwriting/Dramaturgy programs at the University of Alabama. He teaches playwriting and dramatic literature, directs, and has published books and articles on playwriting and commedia dell'arte.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Beyond the Tipping Point 1.New Playwriting Strategies:
Overview and Terms Part I: Strategies of Language and Character 2. On
Multivocality and Speech Genres 3. Polyvocality and the Ascendancy of the
Hybrid Play 4. The Theatricality of Character 5. The Transformation of
Character 6. Len Jenkin's Dramaturgy of Character: From Stage Figures to
Archetypes7. Mac Wellman: Language-Based Character8. Crossover Poetics:
Sarah Ruhl and Suzan Lori-Parks Part II: Strategies of Structure and Form
9. Units and Building Blocks 10. Scenes, Acts, and Revisions 11.
Foundations of Contemporary Monologue 12.Dialogic Monologue: Structure and
Antistructure Works Consulted

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Introduction: Beyond the Tipping Point 1.New Playwriting Strategies: Overview and Terms Part I: Strategies of Language and Character 2. On Multivocality and Speech Genres 3. Polyvocality and the Ascendancy of the Hybrid Play 4. The Theatricality of Character 5. The Transformation of Character 6. Len Jenkin's Dramaturgy of Character: From Stage Figures to Archetypes7. Mac Wellman: Language-Based Character8. Crossover Poetics: Sarah Ruhl and Suzan Lori-Parks Part II: Strategies of Structure and Form 9. Units and Building Blocks 10. Scenes, Acts, and Revisions 11. Foundations of Contemporary Monologue 12.Dialogic Monologue: Structure and Antistructure Works Consulted

Rezensionen

'The exercises Paul Castagno provides are eminently usable. They're direct, clear, and I'm gonna steal them for any playwriting classroom I'm at the front of in the future. They can be the ax Kafka talked about to break the frozen sea within us, let the writer loose, and demand that he or she let the mind hit the page in some new and yet somehow familiar ways.'

-Len Jenkin, Professor of Dramatic Writing, Tisch School of the Arts at NYU